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Boeing 787 Dreamliner returns to service in Ethiopia flight
This is the first Dreamliner passenger flight since January (Photo: BBC.co.uk)
An Ethiopian Airlines 787 Dreamliner has flown from Addis Ababa to Nairobi, the first commercial flight by the Boeing aircraft since all 787s were grounded in January.
The 50 planes around the world were grounded due to battery malfunctions that saw one 787 catch fire in the US.
Over the past week teams of Boeing engineers...
Ethiopian Signs Agreement with Djibouti Airport for Sea – Air Transport
Mr. Tewolde Gebremariam, CEO of Ethiopian and Mr. MohamedYacoub Mahamoud, General Manager of DIA after the signing of the MoU (Photo: EthiopianAirlines.com)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Press Release) – Ethiopian Airlines, the fastest growing airline in Africa, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Djibouti International Airport for the provision of sea-air and air-sea cargo transport of...
Time for Africa?
Tony Tyler (left), CEO of International Air Transport Association (IATA), Tewolde Gebremariam (centre), CEO of Ethiopian Airlines and Getachew Mengistu (right), state minister for Transport (Photo: AddisFortune.com)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - It was with Latin star, Shakira’s pop tune, ‘It’s time for Africa’ that Tewolde Gebremariam (centre), CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, chose to preface his glowing...
Boeing’s engineers in Addis to fix Dreamliners
-Â Â Â Ethiopian to seek compensation
Boeing’s senior engineers arrived in Addis Ababa on Monday to upgrade Ethiopian Airline’s Dreamliner aircraft.
Following the fire accidents on board Dreamliner aircraft the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered all carriers operating the Dreamliner fleet to ground their B787 aircraft in mid-January. Boeing’s engineers presumed that the fire accidents...
IATA Africa Aviation Day Marked in Addis Ababa
Ethiopian Airlines
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia  (WIC) - IATA Africa Aviation Association is marked in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia focusing to drive the benefit of Aviation across the continent on 16 March, 2013. African Airlines Association celebrates the day in cooperation with International Air Transport Association.
The Day talks about African aviation safety strategies, financing aviation infrastructure,...
Aviation company changes name due to confusions with Kenyan carrier Aberdair
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - To settle the confusions related to naming Aberdair Aviation has changed the company’s name into Aquarius Aviation.
According to Frehiwot Tessema, general manager of the company, she was running a locally registered and owned aviation company that for some five years preferred to take the name of a Kenyan long-rooted aviation company, Aberdair.
The deal that was made before...
Ethiopian Airlines consolidates presence in southern Africa
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Ethiopian Airlines is strengthening its presence in southern Africa by opening two additional routes to Ndola, Zambia, and Blantyre, Malawi, as of tomorrow.
In a statement sent to The Reporter on Thursday Ethiopian said that it would commence trice-weekly flights to Ndola, Zambia, effective March 31, 2013.
Ndola, the third largest city in Zambia, is the industrial and...
IATA delegation to visit Addis Ababa
Tony Tyler
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -Â The International Air Transport Association (IATA) delegation led by its Director General and CEO, Tony Tyler, is to visit Addis Ababa next month.
The delegation will arrive in Addis Ababa on April 16 to celebrate World Aviation Day with executives of Ethiopian Airlines and officials of the Ministry of Transport and the Civil Aviation Authority. This would be for...
Efforts underway to modernize air traffic control service
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (WIC)Â - The Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority said it is striving towards modernizing air traffic control services.
Speaking at the graduation of the second round trainees in combined surveillance air traffic control on Sunday, Authority Director-General, Colonel Wossenyeleh Hunegnaw said the government has given prime attention to make the aviation industry safe, reliable and...
Private airlines discuss ‘unfair protection’
Abyssinian Flight Services (Photo: Capt. Solomon Gizaw)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Owners and managers of private airlines operating in Ethiopia on Thursday criticized the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority (ECAA) for protecting Ethiopian Airlines. At a consultative meeting with stakeholders organised by the ECAA representatives of private airlines said the Ethiopian Civil Aviation is giving unfair...
